Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2018

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Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2018

Listing for 193 records from 2018 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	*The Daisy Age* [Koko]
A	Cardi B: *Invasion of Privacy* [Atlantic] Black Thought & Salaam Remi: *Streams of Thought Vol. 2* [Human Re Sources/Passyunk Productions EP] Hamell on Trial: *The Night Guy at the Apocalypse: Profiles of a Rushing Midnight* [Saustex] Rich Krueger: *Life Ain't That Long* [Rockink] Rich Krueger: *NOWThen* [Rockink] Bettye Lavette: *Things Have Changed* [Verve] Mast: *Thelonious Sphere Monk* [World Galaxy/Alpha Pup] Mount Eerie: *Now Only* [P.W. Elverum & Sun] Maria Muldaur: *Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker* [Last] Willie Nelson: *Last Man Standing* [Legacy] Noname: *Room 25* [self-released] The Paranoid Style: *Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall + 3* [Bar/None] Parquet Courts: *Wide Awaaaaake!* [Rough Trade] Pistol Annies: *Interstate Gospel* [RCA] Pusha T: *Daytona* [G.O.O.D. Music EP] Bruce Springsteen: *Springsteen on Broadway* [Columbia] Superchunk: *What a Time to Be Alive* [Merge] Tierra Whack: *Whack World* [self-released EP] *Black Panther: The Album* [TDE/Aftermath/Interscope]
A-	Gyedu-Blay Ambolley: *Simigwa* [Mr Bongo] Bali Baby: *Baylor Swift* [Twin] Courtney Barnett: *Tell Me How You Really Feel* [Mom + Pop] Mandy Barnett: *Strange Conversation* [Dame Productions/Thirty Tigers] 6lack: *East Atlanta Love Letter* [LVRN/Interscope] Black Thought: *Streams of Thought Vol. 1* [Human Re Sources EP] Car Seat Headrest: *Twin Fantasy* [Matador] Chicago Farmer: *Quarter Past Tonight* [chicagofarmer.com] Tyler Childers: *Live on Red Barn Radio I & II* [Thirty Tigers/Hickman Holler] Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: *Routes* [Twelve Eight] Ry Cooder: *The Prodigal Son* [Fantasy] Frankie Cosmos: *Vessel* [Sub Pop] The Coup: *Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack* [Interscope] Cupcakke: *Ephorize* [Bigger Picture] Doctor Nativo: *Guatemaya* [Stonetree] Open Mike Eagle: *What Happens When I Try to Relax* [Auto Reverse] Etran de l'Air: *No. 1* [Sahel Sounds] The Ex: *27 Passports* [Ex] Lupe Fiasco: *Drogas Wave* [1st & 15th] Ezra Furman: *Transangelic Exodus* [Bella Union] Mary Gauthier: *Rifles and Rosary Beads* [In the Black] The Goon Sax: *We're Not Talking* [Wichita Recordings] Ariana Grande: *Sweetener* [Republic] Harriett Tubman: *The Terror End of Beauty* [Sunnyside] Jon Hassell: *Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1)* [Ndeya] Hinds: *I Don't Run* [Mom + Pop] Idles: *Joy as an Act of Resistance* [Partisan] Imarhan: *Temet* [City Slang] The Internet: *Hive Mind* [Columbia] Joan Jett: *Bad Reputation* [Blackheart] Oumar Konaté: *I Love You Inna* [Clermont Music] John Kruth & La Società del Musici: *Forever Ago* [Ars Spoleteum] Leikeli47: *Acrylic* [Hardcover/RCA] Jinx Lennon: *Grow a Pair!!!* [Septic Tiger] Lyrics Born: *Quite a Life* [Mobile Home] Sho Madjozi: *Limpopo Champions League* [Flourish and Multiply] Amber Mark: *Conexao EP* [Virgin EMI EP] Wynton Marsalis Septet: *United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas* [Blue Engine] The Mekons 77: *It Is Twice Blessed* [Slow Things] Nicki Minaj: *Queen* [Young Money/Cash Money/Republic] Mitski: *Be the Cowboy* [Dead Oceans] Janelle Monáe: *Dirty Computer* [Atlantic] No Age: *Snares Like a Haircut* [Drag City] John Prine: *The Tree of Forgiveness* [Oh Boy] Amy Rigby: *The Old Guys* [Southern Domestic] Riton & Kah-Lo: *Foreign Ororo* [Last Gang] Saba: *Care for Me* [Saba Pivot] Homeboy Sandman & Edan: *Humble Pi* [Stones Throw] Hama Sankare: *Ballébé* [Clermont Music] Serengeti: *Dennis 6e* [People] Amanda Shires: *To the Sunset* [Silver Knife] Shopping: *The Official Body* [Fat Cat] Paul Simon: *In the Blue Light* [Legacy] Elza Soares: *Deus É Mulher* [Deck] Soccer Mommy: *Clean* [Fat Possum] Sons of Kemet: *Your Queen Is a Reptile* [Impulse] Sophie: *Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides* [Transgressive/Future Classic] Speedy Ortiz: *Twerp Verse* [Carpark] Superorganism: *Superorganism* [Domino] Tal National: *Tantabara* [Fat Cat] Tracey Thorn: *Record* [Merge] Tropical Fuck Storm: *A Laughing Death in Meatspace* [Tropical Fuck Storm/Mistletone] tUnE-yArDs: *I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life* [4AD] Becky Warren: *Undesirable* [self-released] Kanye West and Kid Cudi: *Kids See Ghosts* [G.O.O.D. Music EP] Wreckless Eric: *Construction Time & Demolition* [Southern Domestic] Wussy: *Getting Better* [Shake It EP] Wussy: *What Heaven Is Like* [Shake It] Yo La Tengo: *There's a Riot Going On* [Matador] *I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits* [Piranha]
B+	American Aquarium: *Things Change* [New West] Bali Baby: *Resurrection* [Twin] Neko Case: *Hell-On* [Anti-] Eminem: *Kamikaze* [Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath] Slim Gaillard: *Groove Juice: The Norman Granz Recordings* [Verve] Clay Harper: *Bleak Beauty* [self-released] Jeffrey Lewis and the Deposit Returners: *Works by Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010)* [Don Giovanni] Mad Crush: *Mad Crush* [Upon This Rock] Ashley McBryde: *Girl Going Nowhere* [Atlantic] Lori McKenna: *The Tree* [CN/Thirty Tigers] Meek Mill: *Championships* [Maybach Music Group] Mr Eazi: *Life Is Eazi--Vol. 2: Lagos to London* [Banku Music] Kacey Musgraves: *Golden Hour* [MCA Nashville] Princess Nokia: *A Girl Cried Red* [self-released EP] Rolling Blackouts C.F.: *Hope Downs* [Sub Pop] *Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s* [Legacy] *Two Niles: To Sing a Melody: The Violins and Synths of Sudan* [Ostinato]
*******	Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: *Landfall* [Nonesuch] The Beths: *Future Me Hates Me* [Carpark] Blood Orange: *Negro Swan* [Domino] Bombino: *Deran* [Partisan] Ceramic Dog: *YRU Still Here?* [Northern Spy] Cupcakke: *Eden* [Cupcakke] Czarface: *Czarface Meets Metal Face* [Silver Age] Qais Essar: *The Ghost You Love Most* [self-released] Marianne Faithfull: *Negative Capability* [Panta Rei/BMG] Flasher: *Constant Image* [Domino] Robbie Fulks/Linda Gail Lewis: *Wild! Wild! Wild!* [Bloodshot] Gift of Gab: *Rejoice! Rappers Are Rapping Again!* [Giftstribution EP] Diana Gordon: *Pure* [self-released EP] Jean Grae & Quelle Chris: *Everything's Fine* [Mello Music] Hop Along: *Bark Your Head Off, Dog* [Saddle Creek] George Jones & the Jones Boys: *Live in Texas 1965* [Ace] Khalid: *Suncity* [RCA EP] Kyle: *Light of Mine* [Independently Popular/Atlantic] Lil Wayne: *Tha Carter V* [Young Money] Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: *Sparkle Hard* [Matador] Roc Marciano: *RR2: The Bitter Dose* [Marci Enterprises] Molly Tigre: *Molly Tigre* [Very Special] Mudhoney: *Digital Garbage* [Sub Pop] Grand Peeples and the Peeples Republik: *Settling Scores Vol. II* [Gatorbone] The Rails: *There Are Other People in This World Not Just You* [Thirty Tigers] Robyn: *Honey* [Konichiwa/Interscope] Sidi Touré: *Toubalero* [Thrill Jockey] Kali Uchis: *Isolation* [Superbillion] Kate Vargas: *For the Wolfish and Wandering* [Kate Vargas] Western Centuries: *Songs From the Deluge* [Free Dirt]
**	Atmosphere: *Mi Vida Local* [Rhymesayers] Baloji: *137 Avenue Kaniama* [Bella Union] Brockhampton: *Iridescence* [Question Everything/RCA] Chris Butler: *Got It Together!* [Smog Veil] Chris Butler & Ralph Carney: *Songs for Unsung Holidays* [Smog Veil] Camp Cope: *How to Socialise and Make Friends* [Run for Cover] Brandi Carlile: *By the Way, I Forgive You* [ATO] Eric Church: *Desperate Man* [EMI Nashville] The Coathangers: *Live* [Suicide Squeeze] DJ Koze: *Knock Knock* [Pampa] Drinking Boys and Girls Choir: *Keep Drinking* [Damnably] Ebony Hillbillies: *5 Miles From Town* [AW Music] E-40: *The Gift of Gab* [Heavy on the Grind] Will Hoge: *My American Dream* [Thirty Tigers/EDLO] Jon Hopkins: *Singularity* [Domino] Low Cut Connie: *Dirty Pictures (Part 2)* [Contender] Mourning [A] Blkstar: *The Garner Poems* [Electric Cowbell] Nostrum Grocers: *Nostrum Grocers* [Ruby Yacht/The Order] RAM: *August 1791* [Willibelle] Ike Reilly: *Crooked Love* [Rock Ridge Music] Caroline Rose: *Loner* [New West] Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: *Years* [Bloodshot] Sly and Robbie: *Nordub: Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvaer Feat Elvind Aarset and Vladislav Delay* [Okeh] Fred Thomas: *Aftering* [Polyvinyl] Weakened Friends: *Common Blah* [Don Giovanni] Young Fathers: *Cocoa Sugar* [Ninja Tune]
*	Lily Allen: *No Shame* [Warner Bros.] Born Ruffians: *Uncle, Duke and the Chief* [Yep Roc] The Bottle Rockets: *Bit Logic* [Bloodshot] The Breeders: *All Nerve* [4AD] Marie Davidson: *Working Class Woman* [Ninja Tune] Epic Beard Men: *Season 1* [Strange Famous] Fat Tony: *10,000 Hours* [Don Giovanni] Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: *Black Times* [Strut] Lala Lala: *The Lamb* [Hardly Art] Adrianne Lenker: *Abysskiss* [Saddle Creek] Walter Martin: *Reminisce Bar & Grill* [Ile Flottante] Medhane: *Ba Suba, Ak Jamm* [Grand Closing] Migos: *Culture II* [QC/Motown/Capitol] Ashley Monroe: *Sparrow* [Warner Bros.] Nas: *Nasir* [G.O.O.D. Music EP] Willie Nelson: *My Way* [Legacy] Okkervil River: *In the Rainbow Rain* [ATO] Primo!: *Amici* [Polyester] Public Service Broadcasting: *Every Valley* [PIAS America] Rae Sremmurd: *SR3MM* [Eardrum/Interscope] Allen Ravenstine: *Waiting for the Bomb* [Morphius/MVD] Marc Ribot: *Songs of Resistance 1942-2018* [Anti-] Derek Smalls: *Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)* [Twanky/BMG] Vince Staples: *FM!* [Def Jam] The Chandler Travis Three-O: *Backward Crooked From the Sunset* [Iddy Biddy] U.S. Girls: *In a Poem Unlimited* [4AD] Kanye West: Ye [G.O.O.D. Music EP] William Elliott Whitmore: *Kilonova* [Bloodshot] The Wood Brothers: *One Drop of Truth* [Honey Jar] *1800 Seconds: Curated by Pusha T* [Mass Appeal]

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